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人無生活計，枉食人間米 (jan4 mou4 sang1 wut6 gai3, wong2 sik6 jan4 gaan1 mai5) — if one doesn't have a plan or goal in one will just waste his life away for nothing in Cantonese

janˎ₄人mouˎ₄無sangˉ¹生wutˍ₆活gai3,計，wongˊ²枉sikˍ₆食janˎ₄人gaanˉ¹間maiˏ₅米
简 人无生活计，枉食人间米
Mandarin Pinyin: ren2 wu2 sheng1 huo2 ji4, wang3 shi2 ren2 jian1 mi3

Meaning of 人無生活計，枉食人間米

nounif one doesn't have a plan or goal in one will just waste his life away for nothing

Characters in 人無生活計，枉食人間米

人jan4
manpower; staff; human resources
無mou4
no matter what (or how); not yet
生saang1
unripe; uncooked; raw
活wut6
live; alive; living
計gai3
meter; gauge; measuring device
枉wong2
distort; twist; pervert
食sik6
sth edible; sth used for cooking
間gaan1
space between; relationship among; interval
米mai5
shelled/husked seed

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